Pocket-Size ReadAThon

[Alyssa]

Hello everyone! Life got the best of me and I haven’t really been posting much! Nicole and I have talked about doing a readathon in order to help us all along in getting our numbers down. There are five challenges and we have seven days to complete them. I will be attempting to post daily updates and I hope that you all do as well this way we can see one another’s progress!

The challenges are:
Read a book with less than 100 pages
Read a book that has a small spine (within 1cm or 1/2 inch)
Read a short story or a story in a bind up
Start five books within the week
Read parts of three books(50-100 pages) within one day or read an entire book in one day if that works better for your reading habits

Obviously these are up to interpretation but they are meant to encourage us all to read multiple smaller more manageable books within one week.

This readathon will take place from June 11th through the 17th from midnight on the 11th till 11:59 on the 17th within your own time zone.

Here is a formula Nicole gave to me and suggested we follow! This way we can all keep one another posted on what we have read/finished throughout any particular day. I will be updating here as well as over on the TBR0by19 twitter account.

Total pages read:
TBR:
Books finished:
Challenges completed:


I’m super excited and can’t wait to see all of the TBR piles!

[Sleepover137]

Whoop whoop, I'm so excited!
I have already chosen a few books for the challenges ;)
(You should also mention that for the starting of the 5 books in the challenge, it is not necessarily mandatory to also finish those within the week).
I will be posting my TBR when the readathon is a bit closer ^^

[Sleepover137]

I'm done with my TBR!

Total pages read: 59

TBR:
1. Reni der Wirbelwind (45 pages)
2. The Lonely Londoners
3. A story from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Lonely Londoners, Reni der Wirbelwind, Kasperle und der Zauberbesen der Hexe Zottelkopf, Two scary Sories by R.L. Stevenson
5. Sonea - Die Heilerin; The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Books finished:
Kasperle und der Zauberbesen der Hexe Zottelkopf

Challenges completed:

[Alyssa]

Hey all!

One day in and I haven’t started reading yet but I am at least going to get the “read a short story” challenge completed today!!

Here is my TBR!

For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Magnus Chase: The Hammer of Thor
The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson

I also hope to finish Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this evening as it is such a short book. How are you all doing?

[Alyssa]

Here is my final update for the evening before I head to bed!! I decided to complete the “Read A Book With 100pgs” challenge. I picked Hotel Valhalla for that even though it is more that 100 because it’s basically a guide book and didn’t take long at all to fly through! Here’s to the rest of the week!

Total pages read: 156
TBR:
1) For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds ✔️
2) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4) Magnus Chase: The Hammer of Thor
5) The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson
Books finished: 1
Challenges completed: 1

[Alyssa]

Hello everyone!
How are we all doing?
Here is my current progress...
Total pages read: 388
TBR:
1) For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds ✔️
2) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ✔️
4) Magnus Chase: The Hammer of Thor
5) The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson
Books finished: 2
Challenges completed: 2

I have read one short story in the HCA collection and I plan to read many more before the week is done but as of now the challenge is complete! Only two more full books for me to complete and I think I can do it! 3 more days left everyone!!

[Sleepover137]

I am bad at updating :D I have tried to do the 3x 100 pages challenge three times now and I always fall asleep by the latest after the second book :D

Total pages read: 294

TBR:
1. Reni der Wirbelwind (45 pages) ✔️
2. The Lonely Londoners
3. A story from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ✔️
4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Lonely Londoners, Reni der Wirbelwind, Kasperle und der Zauberbesen der Hexe Zottelkopf, Two scary Sories by R.L. Stevenson
5. Sonea - Die Heilerin; The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Books finished: 4
Kasperle und der Zauberbesen der Hexe Zottelkopf
Reni der Wirbelwind
Two scary Sories by R.L. Stevenson
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

Challenges completed: 2

[Sleepover137]

yesterday, I finally managed to read parts of three books in one day (although I had to make fantastic beasts part of it to make it happen :-D). And I just finished lonely Londoners. So I have now completed all challenges at 11.30 on the final day. But better late than never.

Total pages read: 391

TBR:
1. Reni der Wirbelwind (45 pages) ✔️
2. The Lonely Londoners ✔️
3. A story from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ✔️
4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Lonely Londoners, Reni der Wirbelwind, Kasperle und der Zauberbesen der Hexe Zottelkopf, Two scary Sories by R.L. Stevenson, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them ✔️
5. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them; The Loney Londoners; Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda ✔️

Books finished: 5
Kasperle und der Zauberbesen der Hexe Zottelkopf
Reni der Wirbelwind
Two scary Sories by R.L. Stevenson
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Lonely Londoners

Challenges completed: 5

[Sleepover137]

And two of my three friends also finished their challenges:

1. Read a book with less than 100 pages:
Legendary Beasts of Britain
2. Read a book that has a small spine
Horrorstör
3. Read a short story or a story in a bind up
Celtic Tales
4. Start five books within the week (no need to finish all within the week)
Horrorstör
Once Upon A Spine
Celtic Tales
Legendary Beasts of Britain
The Children of Castle Rock
5. Read parts of three books(50-100 pages) within one day or read an entire book in one day if that works better for your reading habits
Horrorstör
Once upon a spine
The Moonstone

And

1. Read a book with less than 100 pages:
Tiny Book of Tiny Stories Vol. 1
2. Read a book that has a small spine (within 1cm or 1/2 inch)
The Sleeper and the Spindle
3. Read a short story or a story in a bind up
Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
4. Start five books within the week (no need to finish all within the week)
Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
The Sleeper and the spindle
Saint Anything
Teufelsengel
Save the Date
5. Read parts of three books(50-100 pages) within one day or read an entire book in one day if that works better for your reading habits
Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
Sleeper and the spindle
Teufelsengel

[Alyssa]

Hey everyone! The readathon is over! (and has been for a few days...oops!!)

Here is the progress I ended up with...
Total pages read: 392
TBR:
1) For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla, Guide to the Norse Worlds ✔️
2) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ✔️
4) Magnus Chase: The Hammer of Thor
5) The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson
Books finished: 2
Challenges completed: 3


I finished the Read a Book with less than 100 pages (Hotel Valhalla), Read a Short Story (Hans Christian Anderson), and read parts of a book/read a book in one day(Hotel Valhalla).

I did only finish two books and Fantastic Beasts didn't necessarily meet a challenge but it did mean I finished two whole books this past week as well as started my en-devour of reading all of HCA's works.

Please let me know if anyone would like to do another one at any point! I will probably aim to do one in September or October so that we have a bit of time to recover from BookTubeAThon at the beginning of August.

Hope you are all doing well!! I will hope to keep everyone posted with my progress as well as that I would love to hear about your progress!